Elliott Smith - Roman Candle (from Roman Candle)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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I tell you, I've never heard a song that expresses what true anger feels like in such a pure and visceral way as this one. He completeley captured this feeling of being completely blinded by rage and fury against someone that the only thing you want is to see them suffer. It's a really dark but undeniably human impulse that you don't see very often outside extreme music like metal and such.
His stepfather may have been the motivation to write this song.
I have felt that way about this song as well. It’s such a simmering g boiling cool articulation of this truly level of anger and dare I say rage. But Exquisitely Encapsulated/composed by this master songwriter. It is my understanding that he did not intend to have this material released. You can hear the naked intimacy in it’s confessions. I have not heard this album in a minute and I am literally blubbering to it at the moment …. Thank you Elliott… all peace.
@@bryonguernsey9794 I don't think he had a problem with this seeing the light. His first albums have this twisted, intimate and visceral aura that I love so much and was probably deliberate. He was a true genius.
What about death grips
@@alphalax7747 death grips are a continuation of Elliott's sound
he made the electric guitar sound like a wavering flame, that's pretty great!
nailed it
this is hardcore acoustic numbnuts mcloser
the overdub ya muppet
Joseph Wichman like a candle flickering amidst the fluidity of what Elliott was carrying in himself at the time
acoustic guitar with some sort of distortion pedal?
I love this. It's so frantic and raw that it sounds like it could burst apart any second, but in the gentlest way possible.
+tannerin perfect comment for a perfect song
Which is a great allegory for the theme of the song... Spite and rage growing over time, a secret desire for violence... Great comment!
It's like a playing cards tower, but instead of a tower it's a shack and isntead of playing cards it's red and orange autumn leaves
It sounds so angry and hurt at the same time
Love the slightly distorted, flickering guitar playing in the background. Genius.
honestly my favorite part of the composition for some reason
Silver Snail14 almost like... a candle ;)
So true
elliott was not only an amazing lyricist and singer, he was a fantastic instrumentalist. the way he played his instruments was superb.
Totally true! Him and Jerry Cantrell are my two main influences when playing acoustic. Both have a such a unique style of playing/writing.
@@AirGuitar same man
Game changer to me too, made me a better guitar player
@@AirGuitarjerry has nothing on Elliott.
2:40 when he tunes his low string down a full step mid-song is so awesome!
That is so true.. Elliott's way of playing is definitely inspiring.
Kinda sounds like a open D to me
+Scott Lave It goes down to C there to follow the progression, which is also what he ends with. you can hear it waver a little at first
+loganare Dude thanks for pointing that out.. Wow..
Brilliant!!
I wish I could tell him how much he’s helped me over the years. Special place in Heaven for an angel like Elliott.
I swear Elliott Smith is the one musician that makes my heart feel like its about to fall out of my chest and bleed out. He was and always will be amazing.
elliott smith is my all time favorite artist
Sometimes i feel embarrassed that 3/4 of my playlist is Elliott Smith. Hahahahaa
@@Ginglover9000 man my playlist is just Elliott Smith
Y’all should definitely diversify lol
@@seanmatthewking Agree. From experiencie, overdose of elliott smith isn’t good at all. Do psycho therapy please 🫂🤝xoxo
He's not in my top 5, but he has been before and might be in the future. I can totally understand and appreciate someone who has the dude as their favorite artist. You can't, but that's okay. But a lack of diversifying is not the reason for his continued cult following, though. Just a difference of taste. @@seanmatthewking
The more I listen to Elliot the more positively impressed I am at how controlled he was with his music. In spite of everything he went through as a youth and adult that could have many times had a negative impact on his music he seemed to amazingly be able to channel it and convey it into brilliance.
Yes.. perhaps because he had so little control over so much of what was wrong in his life, he felt he could at least control the music
i remember pretty well being 21, sitting outside of parties in my car smoking bowls and listening to this album over and over
Did you escape from some moody 90s film?
@@seanmatthewking Lollllll
I wish we were friends then (:
I remember buying this and his second album and listening to them after work while writing letters and drinking a few bottles of wine.
ok mr sigma
Never realised just how nice the electric guitar in the chorus sounds until listening to it now. This song just has such rich dark and hazy atmosphere, arguably underrated in terms of Elliott's back catalogue i'd say.
When I was 20 years old I was still in the small town where I grew up. I went out to a bar with my coworker and her boyfriend. I was oblivious to the fact that she was crushing on me. After we had dinner we stood talking in the parking lot. I was always awkward in social situations so I diverted boring conversation to the music on the cd in my old beater car. I sang along to this song (singing in this style is natural and easy for me), and finally picked up on her feelings from how she responded affectionately to my singing. She left her boyfriend not long after and we were together for over four years. It's fifteen years later- some moments do last forever.
This is beautiful thank you for sharing. Hope you find more happy love in your life.
Wow interesting story, thank you for sharing
are we all gonna ignore the fact that this dude is a gigachad?
Poor ex-boyfriend.
lol I was no chad. She was in a loveless long-term relationship. We both had childhood trauma that helped connect us, and I believe I was more emotionally mature than he was at the time, allowing us to have long and thoughtful conversations. She stuck with that other guy because she didn't know what else to do- we were all just kids. When we started falling in love she ended that relationship. I never saw much of him again after that but I don't think he was seriously hurt, just had a breakup with a high school gf.
Why have I never heard this dude before?
I'm all shivery and in love?
yup he's dead as well like all good artists it seems.
Wingdings Gaster Misery makes pretty art, I guess. :(
+Andromeda “Kitty” Hadouken ashes to ashes dust to dust
His albums just get better and better. And he's scads of material floating around that was never released. Tons of music to listen to.
Andromeda Hadouken So goooood
He played himself
Didn't need me to give him hell
He could be cool and cruel to you and me
Knew we'd put up with anything
I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
I'm a roman candle
My head is full of flames
I'm hallucinating
Hallucinating
I hear you cry
Your tears are cheap
Wet hot red swollen cheeks
Fall asleep
I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
I'm a roman candle
My head is full of flames
I want to hurt him
I want to hurt him
I want to hurt him
I want to give him pain
And make him feel this pretty burn
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thanks for the upload! Been looking for this
+Kill Rock Stars thanks i have bought it before just lost it kinda
+Kill Rock Stars Thank you!
you guys are awesome!
This songs so insanely cool. He retunes his E string halfway through. Learning any Elliot Smith song, you know you're in for an adventure with learning new chords that sound so simple at first, but try picking them like him and it's gonna take a hell of a lot of practice. Such a genius when it comes to writing songs.
It definitely hits different once I learn he was talking about his stepfather.
I figured it was about him
But I can't figure out if he's saying he wants to hurt his stepfather or he's singing from the stepfather's point of view like I want to hurt that kid he's got lots of songs about his mom and stepdad I think
this one of those songs that never leave you... I keep coming back to listen again and again and it's still not enough :)
One of the only few songs i really like. Pure emotion/anger/rage in this song. I love it.
The guy was an amazing songwriter. The chord progression in this is so unique, dissonant and beautiful.
Foi tao jovem, tinha tanto a oferecer ao mundo.Ele foi um excelente cantor, compositor e musista.
Descanse em paz
Still can't believe this album was released when he was 17/18, absolutely nuts....
nah he was 25, but this song was written when he was 17
He was still 24, but less than a month from turning 25 when this album was released@@ridoy4366
*I want to hurt him, I want to give him pain*
*I’m a roman candle, my head is full of flames*
what a song writer Elliot was. At peace now my friend. Your songs live on.
Thank you so much!
I had tickets to see Elliott at All Tomorrow's Partys but he passed right before it, so I never saw him live.
Scott Wilson awew
Omg thats a fucking story!
I‘m really sorry.
a quiet song about anger like no other.
One of the greatest songs ever written
The end with the tone of the bass frequencies is pure bliss.
Wow so intense...the amount of textures going on through this is mind blowing. Cant even express
This one's been stuck in my head for months now
God he is amazing
I feel like this song is about self hatred, and it really makes me relate
Such an under appreciated song and album.
this is so bitter sweet, love it
I'd love to hear a metal cover of this
now im interested too
Lol
Compare this to his final album, From a Basement on the Hill. The lyrics, the energy is completely opposite. He got louder and more chaotic with every album. The lyrics went from cryptic, folky stories like in this album.. To blunt, personal and literal lyrics on FABOTH, chaotic tracks like Shooting Star, Don't go Down, Kings Crossing, Coast to Coast..
Elliott's evolution was so interesting. I feel like the sounds reflected his increasingly chaotic life. This album is beautiful for it's rawness, and FABOTH is beautiful for it's mastery and sonic brilliance. It's amazing use of dissonance makes it so hectic in a good eay. Among other reasons.
@@HowToDriveinOregonReviews yeah not this song necessarily, but the album. There are hardly any literal lines I can think of off the top of my head. Like, condor Ave epitomises the style best I think. But faboth, I can think of lots like in little one, kings crossing "don't matter cos I have no sex life", fond farewell "vomiting in the kitchen sink", and then strung out again is a really good example of it, "hate my face" Maybe cryptic isn't the best word either, but a more figurative writing style in Roman Candle than Faboth for sure IMO. Maybe cos it seems a lot more based on truth as the songs are more written in first person and are more clearly about himself, where Roman Candle feels like he's telling stories of people so he can afford to be more metaphorical. Or maybe I'm just glossing over the literal lyrics that probably exist on Roman Candle haha. Anyway that's my take cheers!
frightening but absolutely beautiful
This might just be the best song ever
Quiet, burning, repressed rage.
Haunting stuff
This is restrained rage beauty
It makes perfect sense that George Harrison's Beatles tune---LONG, LONG, LONG--was the very last thing that Smith performed live. Smith was like Harrison in that, beneath the 'gentleness' there was a rather scary amount of barely pent-up rage.
Elliott Smith's "Roman Candle" is now on UA-cam.
Oh yeah ? Prove it !
Thanks
I don’t believe you
this song is so underrated my god
Thank you Mary Lou Lord for showing me this.
So much energy
Beautiful and raw
2:50 The double-track guitar on this song almost sounds like the string picked notes are delayed but I don't think they are - might have just ended up that way. Coupled with with 2 separately recorded vocal tracks panned left and right is just so simple yet stereophonically haunting. Some say 4-track recording is limited but this is a perfect example where "less" is certainly much more. After listening to this, I wouldn't want to hear this song recorded any other way.
I wanna hurt him
I wanna give him Pain
I’m a Roman candle
My head is full of flames
" he made this guitar sound like ... watering flame , no , like far away trains chasing industriel indian tribes . "
Absolutely adore this song
This is so haunting
I’ve been feeling alone all my life
i think we are all alone
i'm beginning to think it's not so bad
me too and moreso now
maybe im not so alone after all
Is this the best song ever written?
Elliott was on a different level and I feel it.
This song is so angry in the most satisfying way.
my throat hurts every time i listen to this song, sometimes i even cry. i just want him out of my life, why is it so hard?
all time favorite. unbelievable.
It’s 2022 and nothing will ever top Elliott Smith. Happy Birthday sweet soul! 8/06/2022.
this song has really deep meaning I think. like Elliott saying he wants to hurt those who care like natural mechanism to see how much they care. gives deep satisfaction to see how they care after u push the ones u love. sick. expresses the hatred out atleast . hates when people try to care cause idk . no one else has
My head is full of flames
I love this place
possibly my favourite song ever
So beautiful
phenomenal! from 2:43 till the end
It's so beautiful. There are no words for it.
he saved me i love him so much i wish i knew him
Wow it's such an amazing piece to play on classical guitar !!
Damn this is a masterpiece
This song is exactly what it feels like to restrain the rage that wants to boil over ever so badly. Knowing you have every right to retaliate yet here you remain.
underrated as fuck album
I wonder if the "him" he wants to hurt is his step-dad Charlie?
i always saw it as if it were sung from the perspective of his stepdad. 'him' being charlie wanting to hurt elliott
Yeah
So amazing!!!!
idk how to explain it but this song being raw anger kinda teeters on the line of love i literally love it so much
yeahhh! 💌
His best song in so many ways. Love the vibe and simplicity of this album though e s was such a accomplished musician
Angeles obviously his best song but this is a good one
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE!
Love n miss u Elliott
I'm sure this song is about infidelity, but in dealing a very different beast I know exactly how he feels, and that is what makes his music so relatable to this day
Actually I think this song is more abt the abuse he suffered from his father at a young age, like with No Confidence Mand and Abused.
I cant even take refuge in his music anymore. You ruined my life dad.
there are a lot of people who I think about whenever I hear this song
I would give so much to just have a conversation with him
you guys think is a coincidence that the tuning of the guitar is D-A-D-G-B-D that at first it spells DAD?
There might be a connection that this tuning/song is about his step father Charlie and wanted to point out a detail
This is the most crazy reach ive ever saw
I think it’s about his step father. But DAD is super common…
it goes down to C-A-D-G-B-D by the end of the song so… no
thanks KRS... love your attitude
this is my jam
dont know how many times ive listened to this number this evening. things are great
He played himself
Didn't need me to give him hell
He could be cool and cruel to you and me
Knew we'd put up with anything
I wanna hurt him
I wanna give him pain
I'm a Roman candle
My head is full of flames
I'm hallucinating, hallucinating
I hear you cry
Your tears are cheap
Wet hot red swollen cheeks
Fall asleep
I wanna hurt him
I wanna give him pain
I'm a Roman candle
My head is full of flames
I wanna hurt him
I wanna hurt him
I wanna hurt him
I wanna give him pain
Make him feel this pretty burn
To hear this is to sit with his ghost
wet hot red swollen cheeks, fall asleep
Freaky how someone posted this comment 5 years ago for me to read it just as Eliott sang it in the recording.
I've banged some of THE HEAVIEST DARKEST music known to man and Elliott Smith, or THIS SONG,ROMAN CANDLE,IS THE SCARIEST SONG I'VE EVER HEARD.and this IS the heaviest shit I know.RIP Elliott.years from now, they'll be literally studying this.
nice
This is anger (possibly self anger given his life struggles) in audio format
hes the only one here
thanks. you krs cats keep it comin'..-cool
Dark af holmes
I hate drugs and alcohol when you young you dont know better
They’re great in moderation, no matter the age
When I have to go to the DMV.
Lmao
Boooo
anyone know why this album and a few others have just vanished from all other streaming sites (apple music, spotify, soundcloud)???
this is back on Spotify now!
i have so much hate for someone sometimes i can't even hold it for myself
congratulations, he played himself
Lmao fucked up